The goal of this project is to obsolete itself and improve Ruby itself.
This RubyGem /may/ improve the performance of net/* libraries under
(matz) Ruby 1.9.3+. If there is any benefit, large (memory-footprint)
applications stand more to gain than smaller ones.
See: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5138 and
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5765